Ethics & Religion
It’s time to abolish the erroneous idea of sin
‘Sin’ is a word embedded in our language and culture. It has wide use. Uprooting it would be as difficult ...
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The truth by the numbers: Religion in Australian society
RSA Fellow Neil Francis is producing a multi-part study for the Rationalist Society: Religiosity in Australia. The first installment, Part ...
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Assisted dying opponents don’t mention Switzerland. Why?
Recently, Dr Theo Boer, an Assistant Professor at a “black-stocking” (strongly conservative Protestant) theological college in the Netherlands was at ...
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Out in the open: Should candidates for parliament state their religious affiliations?
When I read Meredith Doig’s comment about "a new breed of 'muscular' Christians (Australian Rationalist, December 2020), some of them ...
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Rethinking the human: On being accountable in the Anthropocene
In a quiet corner of my library is a book called Man and the Ecosphere. It’s a set of essays from Scientific ...
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